AI Automation

Ford has rehired 350 experienced engineers after AI and automated systems failed to meet the automaker's manufacturing quality standards.

CNBC reports Uber cut nearly a quarter of its people division as firms continue to automate workloads with AI.

Companies are racing to automate debt-collection calls with AI, raising new questions for consumers, finance firms, and regulators.

Reserv raised a $125 million Series C led by KKR to expand AI-native insurance claims automation and capacity.

Nvidia reports that AI has compressed a 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to a single overnight job, though full autonomous chip design remains distant.

Nearly 80,000 tech employees were laid off in the first quarter of 2026, with almost 50% of affected positions attributed to AI-driven automation.

Mustafa Suleyman says AI will achieve human-level performance on professional tasks including law, accounting, and project management by 2027.

Impulse AI unveils autonomous ML platform that ranked top 2.5% on Kaggle competition, automating entire workflow from data prep to production deployment in under one hour.

Amazon accidentally announces 16,000 job cuts via misfired internal email, marking second major layoff round in six months as company embraces AI automation.